Beginning Reconstruction Era

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to —

• protect the voting rights of African American men

• abolish the institution of slavery

• mandate fair labor contracts between African American workers and plantation owners

• establish legal requirements for the education of former slaves

The Freedman's Bureau was created in order to:

• Settle new immigrants to the South after the Civil War.

• Force the South to rejoin the Union after the end of the Civil War.

• Restrict the movement and freedom of newly freed slaves in the South.

• Educate, help, and provide food/shelter to newly freed slaves in the South.

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

What was "Reconstruction"?

• The era of time when the North and South were fighting over the issue of slavery.

• The name of the law that President Lincoln created to free all of the slaves in America.

• The time period after the war when the South was rebuilt brought back in to the Union.

• The name of the series of events that caused the Civil War.

The intent of the KKK was to

• help former slaves vote in elections

• prevent former slaves from voting in elections

• help former soldiers adjust to life at home

• prevent women from voting

What services did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to recently freed African American slaves?

• They offered loans so freed slaves could buy tools and seeds on credit and payback later.

• They provided houses and farms so they could get out of the cycle of poverty of sharecropping.

• They provided them with schools and hospitals, so they could adapt to their new rights and freedoms.

• They kept freed slaves from joining voter roles and voting, by using fear and violence.

What crop was produced in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era?

• Silk

• WRIST Crops

• Cotton

• Corn

Following the Civil War, most former slaves in the South made their living as...

• teachers.

• tradesmen.

• carpenters.

• sharecroppers.

Before the Civil War the Dred Scott court case stated that African Americans were not citizens of the United States. Which of the following reversed (changed) this ruling?

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Sharecropping

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment